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Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, Poet Zach Savich
Monday, 12 February 2007, 3:24 pm | City Gallery Wellington
American Writers from the International Institute of Modern Letters Friday 16th February, 12pm and 1:30pm Join us for free public readings by the two American writers who are teaching at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters ... More >>
Theory of Everything at City Gallery
Monday, 18 December 2006, 1:13 pm | City Gallery Wellington
The elusive Theory of Everything is a mathematical formula which makes sense of all systems at play in the physical world. An Introduction to the Theory of Everything, curated by Jessica Reid, marries the everyday with ideas of the fantastical, theoretical ... More >>
Artist’s Talk - Jeanne Macaskill
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 11:21 am | City Gallery Wellington
Thursday 7 December, 1pm Join Jeanne Macaskill for a special look at her Michael Hirschfeld Gallery exhibition ‘Day by Night’. The exhibition acknowledges and celebrates the life and work of this senior Wellington painter, presenting some key ... More >>
Artist's Talk
Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 11:40 am | City Gallery Wellington
Peter Madden presents an illustrated talk exploring how the poetic in his collage and photomontage practice developed, followed by a floor talk in front of his installation. More >>
City Gallery Wellington’s Flagship Exhibition
Monday, 27 November 2006, 10:16 am | City Gallery Wellington
City Gallery Wellington launches its flagship Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand in February 2007. Showcasing the new and the familiar, the exhibition surveys the work by over 30 New Zealand artists from the last three years. More >>
Under 18s Free At City Gallery this Weekend
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 10:06 am | City Gallery Wellington
City Gallery Wellington is pleased to announce free entry (for under 18s) to Sam Taylor-Wood this weekend, marking the popular annual Muka Youth Print Exhibition. More >>
Order of Merit Winner at City Gallery Wellington
Saturday, 11 November 2006, 12:50 am | City Gallery Wellington
Day by Night celebrates the life and work of one of Wellington’s senior painters, Jeanne Macaskill. Since returning to New Zealand in 1972, after 17 years living abroad—in England she was a friend of Bridget Riley’s and an assistant to sculptor Henry ... More >>
Why We Love Art
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 10:13 am | City Gallery Wellington
“Every now and then contemporary art delivers a little surprise, which is why I love it,” New York Times art critic Holland Cotter enthused about Obsessive Drawing. The 2005-2006 show, at the prestigious American Folk Art Museum, featured five outsider ... More >>
City Gallery: Madden’s Escape
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:21 am | City Gallery Wellington
Birds, snakes, skulls, spiders and a plethora of orchids; Escape from Orchid City is an imaginative insurgence. Peter Madden’s installation, which transforms the City Gallery Wellington space, draws its title from this work. More >>
Illuminating the Everyday
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:08 am | City Gallery Wellington
Tony Lane has long been a prominent figure in the cultural landscape of Wellington and New Zealand, but surprisingly, City Gallery Wellington’s Practical Metaphysics is the first-ever large-scale survey of his work. More >>
Awards For City Gallery Wellington
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 9:48 am | City Gallery Wellington
Fresh recognition for City Gallery Wellington’s partnerships and programmes resulted in two awards this week. More >>
Indigenous Erotica
Monday, 18 September 2006, 2:07 pm | City Gallery Wellington
Inspired by the book ‘Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica’ (co-published by Huia Publishers) this session serves to highlight erotic writing by Maori. Readings from the likes of Cliff Curtis feature work by Hone Tuwhare, Witi Ihimaera, Briar ... More >>
Exciting Closing Weekend Events Extravaganza
Monday, 18 September 2006, 10:21 am | City Gallery Wellington
Closing weekend for Elizabeth Thomson, Guy Ngan and The Ian and Elespie Prior Collection features four exciting events. Don’t miss your last chance to see Elizabeth Thomson—my hi-fi my sci-fi, Guy Ngan Journey: Aluminium Panel, Tiki Hands & Anchor Stones and ... More >>
Footnote Dance: Watch This Space
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 9:52 am | City Gallery Wellington
Local dance legends Footnote Dance return to City Gallery for a special Dance Your Socks Off! event combining art, dance and music for your lunchtime pleasure. Check out their improvised ‘happening’ which begins in the Gallery foyer and culminates ... More >>
Elizabeth Thomson Keymote Lecture
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 9:51 am | City Gallery Wellington
Elizabeth Thomson works primarily as a relief sculptor, marrying the two-dimensional concerns of a painter with the three dimensional preoccupations of a sculptor. More >>
Writers on Monday
Monday, 4 September 2006, 3:22 pm | City Gallery Wellington
The excellent*, popular Writers on Monday series continues at City Gallery on Mondays (1pm) with some splendiferous youngies. More >>
Black Power at City Gallery
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 2:13 pm | City Gallery Wellington
The blackness in Lonnie Hutchinson’s work seduces as the colour of power and potential. Parallel Seductions, part of the Telecom sponsored 2 x 2 Contemporary Projects, follows on thematically from her 2005 Australian exhibition This Show is What I Do. Both ... More >>
Award Winner at City Gallery
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 12:57 am | City Gallery Wellington
In 2005 video and installation artist Sriwhana Spong won the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award. Hailed by The Herald for her “great powers of invention…,” Spong is widely considered one of New Zealand’s leading young artists. More >>
Strange New World
Thursday, 29 June 2006, 12:44 am | City Gallery Wellington
Wellington-based artist Martin Basher has created a strange new world: a post-apocalyptic environment where a lone man joyrides his way through a deserted landscape of pine trees, shantytowns and coloured lights; wasteland of billowing smoke. Basher’s ‘Blackwater’, ... More >>
Chapter Of Ngan: Unsung Master At City Gallery
Friday, 23 June 2006, 5:13 pm | City Gallery Wellington
The Stokes Valley roundabout, The Reserve Bank, The Beehive tapestry...Guy Ngan is an unsung master. His abstract public sculptures are peppered through cities and towns all over New Zealand; seen every day by thousands of people, often with little ... More >>
